Simmons & Simmons is a leading
international law firm with fully integrated teams
working through offices in Europe, the Middle East
and Asia, bringing experienced professionals to some
of the most active growth markets today. Our focus
on a small number of sectors means we are able to
understand and respond to our clients’ needs.
Our industry sectors are: Asset Management & Investment
Funds, Financial Institutions, Life Sciences and Telecoms,
Media & Technology (TMT). We also focus on the
E&I market, in particular through our international
projects and construction teams. We have a track record
for innovation and delivering value to clients through
new ways of working.
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Our strong sector focus ensures our lawyers are able
to pinpoint quickly the issues arising for different
industries.
Simmons & Simmons is a leading
international legal practice, offering you access
to over 1,500 staff worldwide, including more than
240 partners and a total legal staff of over 1,000.
Our client base includes a significant number of the
current FTSE 100 and Fortune Global 500 companies
and we advise the top 10 investment banks, many of
the world's largest financial conglomerates and more
than half of the top 50 European hedge fund managers.
We provide services from offices in Europe, the Middle
East and Asia.
Our offering
Simmons & Simmons launched its sector driven
approach over a decade ago and it sits at the heart
of our business so our integrated global projects
team is made up of genuine industry experts. By focusing
on specific sectors (as detailed below) we have developed
the specialist expertise required to advise high-profile
clients on some of the largest, most complex transactions
in the global projects market.
Sector expertise
Infrastructure: We have particular expertise in Private
Finance Initiative (PFI) and Public Private Partnership
(PPP) projects. In 2015 we advised the UK Ministry
of Defence in relation to its £6 billion Logistic
Commodities & Services Transformation Project
(the largest and most complex European logistics PPP).
Rail:
We advise on high-profile, high value and complex
railway infrastructure projects and railway PPPs.
We have worked on high speed rail projects in Europe
(including HS1 and HS2) and the Middle East. We also
regularly advise on global metro and tram projects.
Oil and
Gas: We advise across a full range
of upstream and downstream projects. We are particularly
known for our experience in the development and financing
of global petrochemical projects (Example: Shell/CNOOC
joint venture), LNG projects (Example: Egyptian LNG),
international pipeline projects (Example: Bulgarian
Gas Holdings) and bulk storage terminals (Example:
Sonker). We also have unique experience of advising
on high-profile politically sensitive projects (Example:
Bulgarian Gas Holdings).
Power:
We advise on the acquisition, development and financing
of large-scale global power projects. We are particularly
known for our experience in the African and Middle
Eastern markets (Examples: Facility D, ABSA). We also
have specialist experience in advising on power projects
with a water element, including on IWPPs (Examples:
Black & Veatch IWPP – Algeria, Facility)
and hydro power projects (Example: Inga 3, DRC).
Renewables:
We advise on the acquisition, development and financing
of global renewables projects. We also advise on complex
joint venture matters, including structuring/re-structuring
issues and investments/divestments of leading international
renewable project platforms. We are particularly known
for our experience in Africa, South America and Asia
(Examples: Mainstream, British Solar Renewables, Macquarie).
Mining:
We advise on complex investments and divestments in
relation to mining projects and have advised investment
funds involving various forms of finance (such as
equity or convertibles combined with offtake, pre-pay,
streaming and royalty finance) (Examples: RCF, SNC
Lavalin).
Our sector offering
is complemented by the following:
A. Cross-Office Capability
Our specialist projects lawyers operate as one integrated
global projects team. For example, the team advising
Mitsubishi Corporation on the Facility D project included
lawyers from Dubai, Doha, London, Paris, Singapore
and Tokyo. Owing to our strong collaboration, our
clients are able to benefit from seamless and cost
effective cross border legal services that are imperative
to international projects transactions.
B. Growth Market Groups
Our projects practice is focused on our four Growth
Market Groups (GMGs) in Africa, China, the Middle
East and South East Asia. The GMGs are formed of partners
and lawyers actively working with clients in these
markets. The GMGs encourage involvement from lawyers
across the firm’s office network, enabling those
with clients operating in the GMG markets, or with
skill sets relevant to client needs to expand their
support for the firm’s clients. Examples of
recent work which has been completed across our GMGs
include an IPP Renewable Energy Programme for ABSA
(Africa) and the Facility D independent water and
power project for Mitsubishi (Qatar - Middle East).
Our experience
• transaction counsel to SNC-Lavalin, in respect
of the exercise of its put option and the divestiture
of its ownership interest and the balance of its loans
in the Ambatovy Nickel Joint Venture Project, a laterite
nickel mine operation and a hydrometallurgical processing
plant in Madagascar
• transaction counsel to the Mitsubishi corporation
as lead international developer in connection with
the 2,400 mw / 130 migd facility D independent water
and power project in Qatar
• lenders counsel in connection with the project
financing of a bulk liquids terminal for the import
and storage of gasoil, LPG and LNG at Sokhna Port
in Egypt
• transaction counsel to the UK Ministry of
Defence (MoD), advising in relation to the Logistic
Commodities & Services Transformation (LCS(T))
project, involving the procurement of all non-explosive
commodity items (such as food, medical and general
stores, clothing), the inventory management and the
storage and distribution of such items together with
all other non-explosive stock across the MoD
• project counsel to Mainstream on its $1.9
billion US dollar joint venture in Africa with pan-emerging
markets investor Actis
• transaction counsel to the Ministry of Defence,
in respect of the sale of its privately owned trading
fund, the Defence Support Group (DSG)
• transaction counsel to the inBalans consortium
providing advice on project documentation, financing
and shareholder structures in order to reach financial
close on the Breda Courthouse PPP in the Netherlands
• transaction counsel to Transport for London,
advising on their “Pan TfL” Facilities
Management solution, under which TfL are to procure
up to 7 different facilities management contracts,
covering (i) mechanical and electrical and premises,
(ii) fire detection, protection and suppression, (iii)
security, reception and static guarding and (iv) cleaning
and associated services
• transaction counsel to US-based Orion Mine
Finance Group on its partnership with Swiss-based
Fusion Capital AG to establish Lynx Resources Ltd,
and on the acquisition by Lynx Resources Ltd (via
its wholly owned subsidiary Lynx Europe SPLLC Skopje)
of the entire issued share capital of Rudnik Sasa
Doo Makedonska Kamenica (“SASA”) from
Solway Investment Group (the Russian based private
equity investor)
• transaction counsel to Next on the acquisition
and development of multiple ground-mounted solar photovoltaic
assets in the United Kingdom
Our team
Richard
Dyton is Head of the International
Projects Group and specialises in PPP/PFI concessions
and non-contentious construction law in the UK and
internationally, with a particular focus on the energy
and infrastructure sectors.
Juliet
Reingold is a PPP/infrastructure lawyer
with many years of experience of transport/logistics,
defence, social accommodation, utilities and nuclear
decommissioning sectors.
Expertise across a wide range of commercial transactions
including public sector outsourcings, contractorisations,
new business transformational structures, privatisations,
PPP’s, private M&A and asset acquisition
and procurement. Her practice is both UK and international
and her clients are Governments, sponsors, contractors
and funds.
During her career Juliet has advised UK Central Government
Departments at senior level including DfT, MOD, MOJ,
Cabinet Office, DCLG, DH and DEFRA as well as Transport
for London.
Patrick
Wallace is an energy and infrastructure
lawyer with many years of experience of power, oil
and gas and infrastructure work. He acts on a wide
range of transactions, covering projects, joint ventures,
private M&A and asset acquisitions, privatisations,
commercial contracts and trading and regulatory work.
He has a broad-ranging practice both in the UK and
internationally, where he has particularly strong
experience inCentral and Eastern Europe, Africa and
Asia. Patrick’s power sector expertise includes
thermal, nuclear, and renewables generation, transmission,
supply and distribution and emissions trading. He
was heavily involved in establishing the UK power
market at privatisation and in its subsequent reform;
and he has worked on manymajor power projects and
acquisitions in the UK, mainland Europe, Africa and
Asia since the early 1990s.
Andrew
Petry is a partner and finance specialist
in the Projects team in London. He has a broad range
of experience in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors,
with particular emphasis on banking, project finance
and PPPs in the PPP, renewables, waste, power, transport,
accommodation and LNG sectors. Andrew's clients are
financiers, project sponsors, borrowers, public sector
entities and infrastructure funds. Andrew advises
on Shari’ah compliant financings and has a growing
reputation for acting on alternative funding structures
for projects. Click here to view his full
Adrian
Nizzola is a Western Australian qualified
lawyer, with more than 30 years’ experience
in the energy and infrastructure sector and in project
and structured financing. In that time he has worked
with many national and international energy companies,
both in an in-house and external counsel capacity,
and with international oil companies. He was General
Counsel to Qatar Petroleum, its affiliates and subsidiaries
as well as other Qatari entities, providing ongoing
senior legal support for more than 17 years. He continues
to advise QP.
Adam
Cooper is a projects partner based
in London. He advises on the acquisition, development
and financing of major projects. Adam’s practice
has a strong track record for complex and innovative
financings in emerging market jurisdictions, including
Egypt and Morocco.
Peter
Wright is an energy lawyer who has
over 15 years experience of advising sponsors, lenders
and host governments on large scale electricity and
oil & gas projects, including independent power
projects and liquefied natural gas transactions, and
on the acquisition of energy assets. His experience
has been genuinely international, advising on projects
in the UK, Continental Europe, North and South America,
Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In Asia, his experience
includes advising on projects in Indonesia, India,
Pakistan, Kazakhstan, China and Cambodia.
However, over the last ten years, Peter has developed
a particular focus on African projects, having spent
more than half of his time over the past decade advising
on projects on the African continent, particularly
in the oil & gas and power sectors.
Iain
Duncan is a partner in the London
office of the firm’s Corporate and Commercial
department. He has extensive experience of advising
on projects/transactions around the world in the mining,
oil and gas, power and infrastructure sectors. In
these sectors, he has acted upon a wide range of projects
(including PPP/PFIs), as well as having advised on
partnering arrangements (including contractual and
corporate joint ventures), share/asset acquisitions
and finance, construction, transportation, offtake
and O&M arrangements and on development/investment
agreements with host governments.
Richard
Dyton is Head of the International
Projects Group and specialises in PPP/PFI concessions
and non-contentious construction law in the UK and
internationally, with a particular focus on the energy
and infrastructure sectors.
Click here to view his full CV
Juliet
Reingold is a PPP/infrastructure lawyer
with many years of experience of transport/logistics,
defence, social accommodation, utilities and nuclear
decommissioning sectors. 
Patrick
Wallace is an energy and infrastructure
lawyer with many years of experience of power, oil
and gas and infrastructure work. He acts on a wide
range of transactions, covering projects, joint ventures,
private M&A and asset acquisitions, privatisations,
commercial contracts and trading and regulatory work.
He has a broad-ranging practice both in the UK and
internationally, where he has particularly strong
experience inCentral and Eastern Europe, Africa and
Asia. Patrick’s power sector expertise includes
thermal, nuclear, and renewables generation, transmission,
supply and distribution and emissions trading. He
was heavily involved in establishing the UK power
market at privatisation and in its subsequent reform;
and he has worked on manymajor power projects and
acquisitions in the UK, mainland Europe, Africa and
Asia since the early 1990s. 
Andrew
Petry is a partner and finance specialist
in the Projects team in London. He has a broad range
of experience in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors,
with particular emphasis on banking, project finance
and PPPs in the PPP, renewables, waste, power, transport,
accommodation and LNG sectors. Andrew's clients are
financiers, project sponsors, borrowers, public sector
entities and infrastructure funds. Andrew advises
on Shari’ah compliant financings and has a growing
reputation for acting on alternative funding structures
for projects. Click here to view his full
Adrian
Nizzola is a Western Australian qualified
lawyer, with more than 30 years’ experience
in the energy and infrastructure sector and in project
and structured financing. In that time he has worked
with many national and international energy companies,
both in an in-house and external counsel capacity,
and with international oil companies. He was General
Counsel to Qatar Petroleum, its affiliates and subsidiaries
as well as other Qatari entities, providing ongoing
senior legal support for more than 17 years. He continues
to advise QP. 
Adam
Cooper is a projects partner based
in London. He advises on the acquisition, development
and financing of major projects. Adam’s practice
has a strong track record for complex and innovative
financings in emerging market jurisdictions, including
Egypt and Morocco. 
Peter
Wright is an energy lawyer who has
over 15 years experience of advising sponsors, lenders
and host governments on large scale electricity and
oil & gas projects, including independent power
projects and liquefied natural gas transactions, and
on the acquisition of energy assets. His experience
has been genuinely international, advising on projects
in the UK, Continental Europe, North and South America,
Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In Asia, his experience
includes advising on projects in Indonesia, India,
Pakistan, Kazakhstan, China and Cambodia. 
Iain
Duncan is a partner in the London
office of the firm’s Corporate and Commercial
department. He has extensive experience of advising
on projects/transactions around the world in the mining,
oil and gas, power and infrastructure sectors. In
these sectors, he has acted upon a wide range of projects
(including PPP/PFIs), as well as having advised on
partnering arrangements (including contractual and
corporate joint ventures), share/asset acquisitions
and finance, construction, transportation, offtake
and O&M arrangements and on development/investment
agreements with host governments. 
